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10 Jan 2025 4:00 p.m. PST

"I was flicking through an old Wargames book the other day and memories came flooding back. To any Wargamer born halfway through last century, i.e., old, Charles Stewart Grant needs no introduction. How many of us poured over his book Napoleonic Wargames, or The Wargames Companion and drooled over those colour, yes, colour, photos of massed ranks fighting on green painted boards with whitewashed buildings. Something far beyond my pocket and available space, so as far as I was concerned, an impossible dream. Even his excellent book, Scenarios for Wargames, was far beyond my resources, the smallest scenario calling for some twenty units. Twenty! On 6d (ask grandad, sonny) a week's pocket money? Dream on…"